From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 19 11:58:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4376B1529A for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 11:58:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA00499 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 11:52:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199907191852.LAA00499@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about MTRR boot message In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jul 1999 05:25:32 +0200." <199907190325.FAA17479@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 11:52:41 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi, > = > There's the following message in my dmesg: > = > "Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled, default memory type is uncacheabl= e" > = > I seriously hope that it does not mean that my memory > is not chached... does it? I haven't found any manual > pages or other docs about it. > = > (If it matters: I cvsupped and built a -current world > yesterday. It's an SMP box (dual Celeron), which seems > to run fine so far.) It means that the default memory type for unmapped memory is = "uncacheable". The message is confusing because typically there is a = mapping for physical memory that overrides the default. I'll probably = remove it. -- = \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message